Excerpt from Sorghum: Its Culture and Manufacture Economically Considered as a Source of Sugar, Syrup and Fodder There was a time in the earlier years of the present cent ury, when sugar seems to have been considered a luxury, chiefly to be enjoyed by the wealthy, and when the average annual supply fell short of ten pounds per capita. Now, sugar may safely be classed among the staple articles of food which we term necessities and the average consumption is about forty pounds per year for each person in the United States. The sum annually paid to foreign nations for this great amount of sugar exceeds one hundred million dollars, and the first cost is further augmented by the tax of nearly fifty million dollars which is levied by our government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.